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I argue that the bubonic tourist is a resistive and reflexive everyday character. I
hypothesize that the bubonic tourist can generate spatial and temporal transgressions that
sanction increased social agency and thereby transform our sense of subjectivity. By
appropriating, cannibalizing, and carnivalizing social codes and modes of operation, I considered
how communities are created through performance. I argue that by departing and arriving from
the centre to the margins of a peer, social, and cultural genus—what Pierre Bourdieu calls
habitus—marginalized individuals can both destabilize and inform demarcated and delimited
categories. By performing and feeding back to social codes and norms experiences of the
margins, the bubonic tourist creates fissures that engender self-reflexivity and meaning. I argue
that, the bubonic tourist as a critical and creative practitioner can emancipate and empower the
self and others. I considered how the bubonic tourist as an ethical individual is a member of a
community that is created through performance. Finally, I considered how creative interventions
might engender someone to transmogrify into the bubonic tourist and how as a methodology the
bubonic tourist could have practical application. This study, seeks to outline the grounds in which
instability can generate agency and a sense of self.

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